80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banned in Other Countries
June 24, 2013
If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they contain: dangerous chemicals that other countries around the globe have deemed toxic to the point that they’re illegal, and companies are fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for including them in food products.
In a new book Rich Food, Poor Food, authors Mira and Jason Calton provide a list of what they term “Banned Bad Boys” – ingredients commonly used in up to 80% of all American convenience food that have been banned by other countries, with information about which countries banned each substance and why.
And though it might not surprise you to hear that Olestra – commonly used in low/no-fat snack foods and known to cause serious gastrointestinal issues for those who consume it (understatement) – is on that list, having been banned in both the United Kingdom and Canada, you may be shocked to hear that Mountain Dew, Fresca and Squirt all contain brominated vegetable oil, a substance that has been banned in more than 100 countries “because it has been linked to basically every form of thyroid disease – from cancer to autoimmune diseases – known to man.”
You might also be upset to hear that the food coloring used to make your kid’s delicious Mac & Cheese dinner visually appealing – yellow #5 and yellow #6, namely – is made from coal tar, which among other things is an active ingredient in lice shampoo and has been linked to allergies, ADHD, and cancer in animals. And gaaaaah.
Then there’s azodicarbonamide - commonly found in frozen dinners and frozen potato and bread products – which is used make things like bleach and foamed plastics like those found in yoga mats (tasty!). Azodicarbonamide has been banned in most European countries because it’s known to induce asthma, and is in fact deemed so dangerous that in Singapore its use carries a hefty $500,00 fine and up to 15 years in prison.
Yet, according to the FDA, it’s SO TOTALLY FINE for us to keep shoveling it into our kid’s faceholes: “[Azodicarbonamide] is approved to be a bleaching agent in cereal flour and is permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption.”
Oooookay then.
Finally, there’s butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) – found in Post, Kelloggs and Quaker brand cereals – which is made from petroleum and is a known cancer-causing agent. It’s been banned in England and Japan, but those of us in the U.S. can keep right on serving up to our children for breakfast, because AMMURICA. And FREEDOMZ.
Anyone else find all of this, ohhhh I don’t know, more than a tad bit disturbing? I’m not ashamed to say I have love for the blue box Mac & Cheese, and to think that chemicals known and recognized world-wide as completely toxic are included in that – a product openly marketed as being a meal FOR KIDS – makes me more than a little ragey. I mean, those chemicals can’t be what makes it taste so good, right? So can’t we, umm, just use something else instead? (PLEEEASE DON’T MAKE ME GIVE UP THE MAC & CHEESE, PLEEEASE.) Sigh.
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The reality is........if we keep consuming foods, chemicals and additives and GMO's we will end up with tumours, diseases etc., like these poor rats that were experimented on.
This is already proving true. Look at the DOCTORED NIH statistics and its evident to a simpleton that disease rates have been increasing since the packaged food revolution
WARNING AMERICA: apathy has destroyed many a civilization. Do we want to be next or do we want to take the reins back and live the dream as a world family...not a "governed society"
"People are eating toxic food, drinking toxic water and breathing toxic air.......and just look how sick everyone is."
And Google told me this was ascension sickness LOL
Now...If you don't take your eugenics medication quietly we are going to be forced to relocate you to the compost bin. Be a good little transhuman and finish your lab created veggies and frankenfood.
See that wasn't so bad! Run along to bed and let that tear your DNA to shreads so you can grow up fat and sick like all the good little boys and girls your age.
I should work for the FDA. That was convincing!
FDA is in the job of killing people... That they have made obvious.
THE F.D.A. ARE A CONGREGATION OF UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE WITH COLLEGE DEGREES (much like 80% of our (s)elected government officials). In addition to some of the best benefits around for the "work" they do, THESE ARE SOCIOPHOBES WHO ARE BENDING OVER (or demanding others to bend over for them) FOR SEX (and this position is usually the only position they can do this action with due to too many paid-for dinners by people seeking favors). Otherwise, THE F.D.A. (and their related partners in crime) ARE KNOWN FOR DEMANDING NON-SEXUAL MATERIAL GOODIES, LIKE COCAINE, CASH, VACATIONS, AND PROMISES OF HIGHER PAYING JOBS AFTER THEY SCAM THE U.S. TAXPAYERS FOR SOME OF THE BEST RETIREMENT PACKAGES ANY JOB CAN OFFER (with the least amount of physical and mental work involved).
I am convinced that this is why Ron Paul scared the living crap out of them. He was going to put an end to all of these unneeded U.S. Government "Departments of.." and their gravy trains, and remind them what the government is: servants of the people and by the people, and not servants for some Rothschild money-addicted bankers or Israeli-based lobbyists.
bullseye!!!
System scamming welfare recipients complaining about people who paid into the system collecting welfare. In other words, those with zero survival skills preying on those that do and complaining that their handout isn't big enough.
Nah, FDA is in the job of turning a blind eye to those with the biggest kickback. They don't care about us one way or the other.
SOOO True, FW!!!
I always thought that Kraft Mac and Cheese had an odd taste, not I know what that was.... part of someone's yoga mat got ground into them. I doubt I will ever buy another frozen potato product again either!